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    Commonly Used Formulas in Applied Statistics

    Vo Duc Hoang Vu

    20/10/2014

    1 Descriptive Statistics (Chapter4)


    1
    Pn
    • Sample mean: x̄ = n i=1 xi
    √
    • Geometric mean: G = n x1 x2 . . . xn
    • Range: R = xmax − xmin
    xmin + xmax
    • Midrange: =
    2
    • Sample standard deviation: sP
    n
    − x̄)2
    i=1 (xi
    s=
    n−1

    • Coefficient of variation of population: CV = 100 · σµ ; CV of sample: CV = 100 · s


    x̄

    xi −µ xi −x̄
    • Standardized variable of population: zi = σ ; of sample: zi = s
    Q1 +Q3
    • Midhinge: = 2
    Pn
    i=1 (xi − x̄)(yi − ȳ)
    • Sample correlation coefficient: r = pPn pPn
    2 2
    i=1 (xi − x̄) i=1 (yi − ȳ)

    2 Probability (Chapter 5)
    P (A) 1 − P (A)
    • Odds for A: ; Odds against A:
    1 − P (A) P (A)
    • General Law of Addition: P (A ∪ B) = P (A) + P (B) − P (A ∩ B)
    P (A ∩ B)
    • Conditional probability: P (A|B) =
    P (B)
    • Independence property: P (A ∩ B) = P (A)P (B)
    P (A|B)P (B)
    • Bayes’ Theorem: P (B|A) =
    P (A|B)P (B) + P (A|B 0 )P (B 0 )
    n!
    • Permutation: nP r =
    (n − r)!
    n!
    • Combination: nCr =
    r!(n − r)!
    3 Discrete Probability Distributions (Chapter 6)
    1
    • Uniform PDF: P (X = x) = x = a, a + 1, . . . , b
    b−a+1
    n!
    • Binomial PDF: P (X = x) = π x (1 − π)n−x x = 0, 1, 2, . . . , n
    x!(n − x)!
    λx e−λ
    • Poisson PDF: P (X = x) = x = 0, 1, 2, . . .
    x!

    4 Continuous Probability Distributions


    x−µ
    !2

    1 −0.5
    • Normal distribution: f (x) = √ e σ
    σ 2π
    1 2
    • Standard normal distribution: f (z) = √ e−0.5z
    2π
    1
    • Exponential Distribution PDF: f (x) = λe−λx ; standard deviation = .
    λ
    • Exponential Distribution CDF: P (X ≤ x) = 1 − e−lambdax
    p
    • Normal Approximation to Binomial: µ = nπ; σ = nπ(1 − π) for nπ ≥ 10 and n(1 − π) ≥ 10
    √
    • Normal Approximation to Poisson: µ = λ; σ = λ for λ ≥ 10

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